The Livelihood School

Announces
PROGRAMME
ON

MICROFINANCING LIVELIHOODS
12 - 14 August 2009, Madurai, Tamil Nadu

It is now widely accepted that promotion of large number of livelihoods, especially for the rural poor
and women has emerged as the most significant development challenge of the century. Some
estimates show that more than 12 to 15 million new livelihoods need to be promoted every year in
India alone, to ensure near full employment.
However, two significant bottlenecks in promoting large numbers of livelihoods, especially for the
rural poor do exist, such as: inadequate availability of knowledge base on how to support/ promote
large number of livelihoods, and inadequate availability of trained human resources who can
participate in this work effectively.
The Livelihood School was promoted by BASIX, a pioneer in livelihood promotion to address this
issue on 18th April the Bhoodan Day in the year 2004. The school has been engaged in building
knowledge base on livelihoods and disseminate the same to livelihood practitioners for enhancing
their understanding and implementation capabilities, who in turn will promote large number of
livelihoods. The School has a dedicated team of highly qualified and experienced (Academic and
Practice) faculties from diverse disciplines of Social Sciences, Management, Agriculture, Animal
Husbandry etc. The School, so far has organized about 245 livelihood programs reaching to about
8994 practitioners that includes 88 regular & customized programs (2067 practitioners) and 157
orientation programs (6927 practitioners).

The Livelihood School has developed a unique livelihood program for practitioners “Micro
financing Livelihoods”. This program has been designed based on training requirements of the
participants.

Micro financing Livelihoods

The course “Microfinancing Livelihoods” aims at building a livelihood perspective in the field of
microfinance. This module focuses on ‘how to promote and support livelihoods through
microfinance’.

The programme designed for middle level practitioners working in the field of micro finance.
Course Objectives:
1. Participants would understand the concept of microfinance and linkages between MF and
livelihoods.
2. Participants would understand the process and methodology for developing suitable micro
finance products for the poor.
3. Participants would be able to understand the various institutional building services and funding
opportunities complementing the microfinance initiatives.

Course Content

Poverty, Microfinance & Livelihood

a. Understand Poverty & Poverty reduction strategies

b. The concept of poverty dynamics at household level
c. Analyzing poverty dynamics at household level
d. Concept of livelihood and micro finance
e. The linkage between poverty, MF & Livelihood.

Linking Microfinance and Livelihood Finance

a. Evolution of Micro Finance

b. Principles of Micro Finance
c. Understanding the need for financial literacy and financial counselling and its relevance for
financial inclusion
d. Deepening Micro Finance
e. Difference between microfinance and livelihood finance

Microfinance Product Development

a) Need for micro finance products which suit poor

b) Assessing savings and borrowing potentiality of poor household
c) Financial product development process
d) Market research for product development

Institution Building Services and Funding Sources

a) Need for institution building services in micro finance sector

b) Governance in financial intermediaries
c) Systems for financial intermediaries: HR, IT, MIS, Risk Management
d) Grant, Equity and other financial resource mobilization: Funding sources and pre-requisites
for accessing external funds
Pedagogy
This programme will use multiple methodologies of learning, including case discussions, small
group discussions, audiovisual presentations and field exposure. The medium of instruction will be
in English & Tamil.

Faculty Profile:

Mr. N.S. Sankarlal: Worked as Chief Executive of micro finance company with having 15 years of
experience in organizing, facilitating various training and capacity building events to SHG members,
federation leaders, professionals and bankers. He is expert in finance management, fund
mobilization, accounting, and auditing, cost coverage, MIS, legal formalities and governance.

Mr. M. John Britto: Serving as Program Coordinator of a community based micro finance
enterprise federations, having more than 16 years of experience in promoting/managing SHGs,
enterprise groups, enterprise federations and trained them to achieve its profitability through
productive enhancement, cost reduction and business linkages. He is expertise in providing,
organizing and facilitating livelihood related training for livelihood practitioners working in the field
of micro finance and micro enterprise.

Mr. K.S. Senthil Kumar: Post Graduate Diploma in Management from Indian Institute of
Management (Ahamadabad), having more than 14 years of experience in microfinance and
livelihood. He is expert in proposal writing, training, process documentation and fund mobilization.
He is also actively involved in preparing manual on livelihood opportunity assessment and resource
mapping, micro enterprise and product development for community based organizations.

Ms. S. Nirmala: Post Graduate in Social Work from Madurai Kamaraj University, she has been
working in the development field for the past 12 years in Community based Micro finance and
livelihood. She has worked in community organisation, managing SHG federation, proposal writing,
training, research, etc. She is expert in providing, organizing and facilitating livelihood related
training for practitioners who are working in NGOs, INGOs, Banks, Government projects, etc.
 Programme Date, Venue and Contact details

Date 12 - 14 August 2009

De Nobli Training Centre,
Venue
K. Pudur,
Alagarkoil Road,
Madurai – 624 007

Tel: 0452 – 2566086

Course fee • The programme is residential and the fee would be Rs. 5,000/- only.
• The course fee includes resource material, boarding and lodging.

Scholarship • In case organisation deputes two persons 5 % scholarship will be given

on the course fee.

• Organisations deputing three or more person will get 10 % scholarship

on the course fee.

Registration Please fill the registration form and forward the same along with the
Demand Draft / Cheque, in favour of The Livelihood School, payable at
Indore to the address mentioned below on or before 7th August, 2009

Dr. Srinivas Surisetti

Contact Person
srinivas.suri@thelivelihoodschool.org (09395141380)

Ms. Nirmala S
nirmala@thelivelihoodschool.org (09448956248)

Mr. K.S. Senthil Kumar

vinciadi@gmail.com (9362628290)
sclivelihoodindia@gmail.com

Contact 1. The Livelihood School

Address 219, 1st Floor, 4th ‘C’ Cross, III Block, HRBR Layout, Kalyan Nagar,
Bangalore – 560 043.
Ph: 080-25437848

2. Small Change Livelihoods India Network / OSCARE Foundation

and Research),
69, Kamarajar Salai, Madurai – 625 009.
Ph: 0452-4243696.
The Livelihood School

Application for Micro financing Livelihoods, 12-14, August, 2009

1. Name__________________________________________________________________________

2. Date of Birth__________________________ 3. Male/Female______________________________

4. Date of enrollment________________________________________________________________

5. Correspondence Address ___________________________________________________________

City________________ State_________________ Phone No._____________

Mobile No___________ Email_______________________________________

6. Permanent Address_______________________________________________________________

City____________________________State____________________________________________

7. Educational Details: Qualification__________________________________________________

Board / University_______________________Place__________________Passing Year_________

8. Job Details: Overall Experience: Year_____________ Month_________

9. Experience:

Job Status Designation Tenure of Jobs Job Description Name of

(Yrs and Months) organisation
Current
Previous

10. Sponsor organization if any: __________________________________

11. Reason for interest in the course:___________________________________________________

12. Payment:
Bank Name: ____________ Cheque/DD No:______________________
Dated: _________________ For Rupees: _________________

Signature of Candidate Signature of Sr. Management

Representative of Organization